My husband started getting sick the end of May 2004. He was put in the hospital in June and had an endoscope done and found out he had a gist tumor. He had surgery done in Morgantown, West Virginia. They sent the tumor off to several different places. It came back cancerous. In August we had found out that is spread to his liver. They had to prolong his chemo due to infection after the surgery. He had the five day treatments once a month of doxiruben and ifosomide. He would end up in the hospital two weeks each month. This went on until January. He could not take the last treatment because he had got so sick. They started him on the Gleevac 400mg. He has been on this for two weeks now. If anyone else out there is going through the same thing and had results. Please reply.